English Historical Linguistics 2008
Selected papers from the fifteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 15), Munich, 24-30 August 2008
Volume II: Words, texts and genres
Editors
The fifteen papers selected for Volume II of English Historical Linguistics 2008 have a different emphasis than those in Volume I (CILT 314, Lenker et al. 2010). Nine concentrate on the development of the English vocabulary and six on historical text linguistics, including the development of text-types and of politeness strategies. Of those in the former group, three have their emphasis on etymology, three on semantic fields, and three on word-formation, although some cover more than one of these areas. The topics include: the treatment of etymological problems in the OED; deverbal derivations formed from native verbs and from loan-verbs; the role of metaphor and metonymy in the evolution of word-fields. The field of historical text linguistics is introduced by a general survey, which is followed by more specific studies focussing on 15th-century legal and administrative texts from Scotland, on early 15th-century women’s mystical writings, on medical recipes from the 16th to the 18th centuries and on pauper letters from 18th-century Essex.
The book should appeal to scholars interested in English etymology, the history of semantic fields and of word-formation, as well as in historical text linguistics, politeness strategies and standardization. It provides not only theoretical considerations but also a wealth of case studies.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 324] 2012. xviii, 271 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 27 July 2012
Published online on 27 July 2012
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Foreword & acknowledgements | pp. vii–viii
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List of abbreviations | pp. ix–x
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Editors’ introduction: Explaining the development of the English vocabulary and analyzing characteristic features of English text types | pp. xi–xviii
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Part I. Etymology
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Etymology and the OED: The uses of etymology in a historical dictionaryPhilip Durkin | pp. 1–20
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On the etymological relationships of wank, swank, and wonkyPaul S. Cohen | pp. 21–28
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Base etymology in the historical thesauri of deverbatives in EnglishMichael Bilynsky | pp. 29–62
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Part II. Semantic fields
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The global organization of the English lexicon and its evolutionMieko Ogura and William S-Y. Wang | pp. 65–84
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Repayment and revenge: Metaphorical or metonymic links between two semantic fieldsCarole Hough | pp. 85–98
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Semantic change in the domain of the vocabulary of Christian clergySylwester Lodej | pp. 99–116
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Part III. Word-formation
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Abstract noun ‘suffixes’ and text type in Old EnglishAnne-Christine Gardner | pp. 117–132
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The lexicalisation of syncope: Derivational affixes in West Saxon adjectivesPenelope Thompson | pp. 133–146
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Oriented -ingly adjuncts in Late Modern EnglishCristiano Broccias | pp. 147–164
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Part IV. Textlinguistics, text types, politeness
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Historical text linguistics: Investigating language change in texts and genresThomas Kohnen | pp. 165–188
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Repetitive and therefore fixed? Lemmatic bundles and text-type standardisation in 15th-century administrative ScotsJoanna Kopaczyk | pp. 189–208
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Politeness strategies in Late Middle English women’s mystical writingFumiko Yoshikawa | pp. 209–222
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A diachronic discussion of extenders in English remedies found in the Corpus of Early English Recipes (1350–1850)Ivalla Ortega Barrera | pp. 223–236
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“It is with a trembling hand I beg to intrude this letter”: Politeness in the pauper letters of 18th century EnglandKrisda Chaemsaithong | pp. 237–254
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Genre analysis: Changes in Research Article introductionsGordana Dimkovic-Telebakovic | pp. 255–266
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Index | pp. 267–272
Cited by (2)
Cited by two other publications
Los, Bettelou & Patrick Honeybone
2022. Introduction. In English Historical Linguistics [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 358], ► pp. 2 ff.
Hough, Carole
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CF/2AB: Linguistics/English
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General